Tag: outlook

I noticed a while ago that my Outlook 2010 connected over IMAP to my company email and Outlook Connector for MSN to my personal Hotmail account was always in the process of trying to send messages – even when I hadn’t written a message. This started causing more problems as things would sit in my…

To fix a problem with a corrupted Outlook profile, I created a new profile which caused all my Contacts to be initialized from my Windows Live account. Pretty much everything came in OK, but one of the annoying things is that the “default mailing address” isn’t set right. For whatever reason, Outlook doesn’t just do…

I use the Outlook Connector for MSN to access my MSN mail, calendar and contacts in Outlook 2010. I also have a separate SMTP/POP account for my business which I read in Outlook. It’s nice to have all the email in one place so I don’t miss things. Windows Live Mail is a good program…

For a farewell mail to my colleagues at Microsoft (I’ve decided to move on, but will continue contributing to this blog), I was worried I might miss someone. Using the arguable presumption that the “important people” were those who I’d sent mail to, I figured I would write an Outlook macro to go through my…

My group at work has decided to use Business Contact Manager (BCM) for tracking engagements we’re doing with other product groups here at Microsoft. My team is a sort of internal consulting organization focused on software development processes and tools at Microsoft. So I went to setup BCM on my machine to play around with it. …